Deuteronomy 28:52

KJV1611 – Modern English

And he shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land: and he shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until your high fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down. They will besiege all the cities in the land the LORD your God has given you.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And they shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fortified walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land; and they shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    And he shall kepe the in in all thy cities, vntyll thy hye ad stronge walles be come doune wherei thou trustedest, thorow all thy londe. And he shall besege the in all thy cities thorow out all thy land whiche the Lorde thy God hath geuen the.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    and shal laye sege vnto the wt in all thy gates, tyll they cast downe thy hye and stronge walles, wherin thou trustest thorow out all thy londe. And thou shalt be beseged within all thy portes, thorow out all thy londe which the LORDE thy God hath geuen the.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And he shall besiege thee in all thy cities, vntill thine hie and strong walles fall downe, wherein thou trustedst in all the lande: and hee shall besiege thee in all thy cities throughout all thy lande, which the Lorde thy God hath giuen thee.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And he shall kepe thee in, in all the cities, vntyll he haue cast downe thy hye walles and strong holdes, wherin thou trustedst, throughout all the lande: And he shall besiege thee in al thy cities thorowout all the lande whiche the Lorde thy God hath geuen thee.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    They shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which Yahweh your God has given you.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    `And it hath laid siege to thee in all thy gates, till thy walls come down, the high and the fenced ones in which thou art trusting, in all thy land; yea, it hath laid siege to thee in all thy gates, in all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given to thee;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And they shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fortified walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land; and they shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And they shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fortified walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land; and they shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Your towns will be shut in by his armies, till your high walls, in which you put your faith, have come down: his armies will be round your towns, through all your land which the Lord your God has given you.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    They shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which Yahweh your God has given you.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    They will besiege all of your villages until all of your high and fortified walls collapse– those in which you put your confidence throughout the land. They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the LORD your God has given you.

Referenced Verses

  • Lev 26:25 : 25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when you are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
  • 2 Kgs 17:1-6 : 1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign in Samaria over Israel for nine years. 2 He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not like the kings of Israel who were before him. 3 Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against him; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him tribute. 4 But the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and had brought no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison. 5 Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years. 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
  • 2 Kgs 18:13 : 13 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.
  • 2 Kgs 24:10-11 : 10 At that time, the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. 11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants besieged it.
  • 2 Kgs 25:1-4 : 1 And it happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and camped against it; and they built siege works all around it. 2 And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 3 On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land. 4 And the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldeans were against the city all around:) and the king went the way toward the plain.
  • Isa 1:7 : 7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
  • Isa 62:8 : 8 The LORD has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no longer give your grain to be food for your enemies; and the sons of the foreigner shall not drink your wine, for which you have labored:
  • Jer 10:18 : 18 For thus says the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may find it so.
  • Jer 21:4-7 : 4 Thus says the LORD God of Israel: Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the walls, and I will gather them into the midst of this city. 5 And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath. 6 And I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence. 7 And afterward, says the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and those who are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their lives, and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, nor have pity, nor have mercy.
  • Jer 37:8 : 8 And the Chaldeans shall come again and fight against this city and take it and burn it with fire.'
  • Jer 39:1-3 : 1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah, king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and all his army came against Jerusalem, and they besieged it. 2 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the city was broken into. 3 Then all the princes of the king of Babylon came in and sat in the middle gate: Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.
  • Jer 52:4-7 : 4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and camped against it, and built forts against it all around. 5 So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 6 And in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. 7 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went out of the city by night, by way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were all around the city:) and they went by the way of the plain.
  • Ezek 4:1-8 : 1 You also, son of man, take a tile and lay it before you, and portray upon it the city, even Jerusalem: 2 And lay siege against it, build a fort against it, and throw up a ramp against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it all around. 3 Moreover, take an iron pan and set it as a wall of iron between you and the city, and set your face against it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel. 4 Lie also upon your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that you shall lie upon it, you shall bear their iniquity. 5 For I have laid upon you the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days; so shall you bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6 And when you have completed them, lie again on your right side, and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed you each day for a year. 7 Therefore you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and your arm shall be uncovered, and you shall prophesy against it. 8 Behold, I will put bands upon you, and you shall not turn from one side to another, till you have completed the days of your siege.
  • Dan 9:26 : 26 And after sixty-two weeks, the Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; its end shall be with a flood, and until the end of the war desolations are determined.
  • Zeph 1:15-16 : 15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of devastation and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, 16 A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fortified cities, and against the high towers.
  • Zech 12:2 : 2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling for all the people around about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
  • Zech 14:2 : 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses plundered, and the women violated; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
  • Matt 22:7 : 7 But when the king heard about it, he was angry: and he sent out his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
  • Matt 24:15-16 : 15 Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (whoever reads, let him understand), 16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
  • Luke 19:43-44 : 43 For the days shall come upon you, when your enemies will build an embankment around you and surround you and enclose you on every side, 44 And will level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.
  • Luke 21:20-24 : 20 And when you shall see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is near. 21 Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are in the midst of it depart out, and let not those who are in the countries enter into it. 22 For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. 23 But woe to those who are with child and to those who give suck in those days! For there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. 24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 51And he shall eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your land, until you are destroyed: which also shall not leave you either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of your kine, or flocks of your sheep, until he has destroyed you.

  • 53And you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and your daughters, which the LORD your God has given you, in the siege, and in the distress, with which your enemies shall distress you:

  • 55So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he has nothing left him in the siege, and in the distress, with which your enemies shall distress you in all your gates.

  • 17And they shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat: they shall eat up your flocks and your herds: they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees: they shall impoverish your fortified cities, wherein you trusted, with the sword.

  • Ezek 26:8-12
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    8He shall slay with the sword your daughters in the field; and he shall build a fort against you, and cast a mound against you, and lift up a shield against you.

    9And he shall set up engines of war against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.

    10Because of the abundance of his horses, their dust shall cover you; your walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he enters into your gates, as men enter a city that has been breached.

    11With the hooves of his horses he shall tread down all your streets; he shall slay your people by the sword, and your strong garrisons shall fall to the ground.

    12And they shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise; and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses; and they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the water.

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    42All your trees and fruit of your land shall the locust consume.

    43The foreigner that is within you shall rise up above you very high; and you shall come down very low.

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    24The LORD shall make the rain of your land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon you, until you are destroyed.

    25The LORD shall cause you to be smitten before your enemies: you shall go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shall be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

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    31Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat thereof: your donkey shall be violently taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given unto your enemies, and you shall have none to rescue them.

    32Your sons and your daughters shall be given unto another people, and your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no strength in your hand.

    33The fruit of your land, and all your labors, shall a nation which you know not eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always:

  • 48Therefore you shall serve your enemies which the LORD shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon your neck, until he has destroyed you.

  • 43For the days shall come upon you, when your enemies will build an embankment around you and surround you and enclose you on every side,

  • 12And the fortress of the high fort of your walls will He bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

  • 57And toward her young one that comes out from between her feet, and toward her children who she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and distress, with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.

  • 12And if it will not make peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it:

  • Nah 3:12-13
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    12All your strongholds shall be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.

    13Behold, your people in your midst are women: the gates of your land shall be set wide open to your enemies: the fire shall devour your bars.

  • 15Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things have come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you, so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.

  • 38And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

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    20The LORD shall send upon you cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that you set your hand unto for to do, until you be destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the wickedness of your doings, whereby you have forsaken Me.

    21The LORD shall make the pestilence cling unto you, until He has consumed you from off the land, where you go to possess it.

    22The LORD shall strike you with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blight, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish.

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    63And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nothing; and you shall be plucked from off the land where you go to possess it.

    64And the LORD shall scatter you among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known, even wood and stone.

  • 45Moreover all these curses shall come upon you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you, until you are destroyed; because you did not listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you:

  • 23But the LORD your God shall deliver them to you, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they are destroyed.

  • 10And it shall be, when the LORD your God has brought you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you great and good cities, which you did not build,

  • 11And I will cut off the cities of your land and throw down all your strongholds.

  • 5And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that you may do to them according to all the commandments which I have commanded you.

  • 29When the LORD your God cuts off the nations from before you, where you go to dispossess them, and you take their place and dwell in their land;

  • 14You shall eat, but not be satisfied; hunger shall be in your midst; you shall take hold, but shall not deliver; and what you deliver I will give up to the sword.

  • 8The LORD shall command the blessing upon you in your storehouses, and in all that you set your hand unto; and He shall bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

  • 35The LORD shall strike you in the knees, and in the legs, with a severe boil that cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot unto the top of your head.

  • 1When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land the LORD your God gives you, and you succeed them and dwell in their cities and houses;

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    39And I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your eminent place, and shall break down your high places; they shall strip you also of your clothes, and shall take your beautiful jewels, and leave you naked and bare.

    40They shall also bring up an assembly against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.

  • 14But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil of it, you shall take for yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you.

  • 20Only the trees which you know are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it is subdued.

  • 3And I will camp against you all around, and will lay siege against you with a mound, and I will raise forts against you.

  • 1The one who dashes in pieces is coming up before you: keep the fortress, watch the road, make your loins strong, fortify your power mightily.

  • 19For your waste and your desolate places, and the land of your destruction, shall now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up shall be far away.

  • 13Know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps to you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.

  • 15But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen unto the voice of the LORD your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes which I command you this day; that all these curses shall come upon you, and overtake you:

  • 16Therefore all who devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; those who plunder you shall become plunder, and all who prey upon you I will give for prey.